The outlet unearthed a September 11, 2002, interview in which
Trump halfheartedly expressed support for the war.

"Yeah, I guess so," Trump said when directly asked by Howard
Stern whether he was "in favor of invading Iraq."

The real-estate mogul was asked about his 2002 comments during
two separate interviews Friday morning.

On "Good Morning
America," Trump insisted his Stern interview was "long before
the war started." The US invasion began in March 2003. Trump also
said his statement to Stern was "not exactly strongly in favor"
of the war.

"By the time the war began, I was saying — and I'm on record as
saying — that we shouldn't go into Iraq," Trump said Friday.

Host George Stephanopoulos was incredulous. Trump has repeatedly
said he strongly opposed the Iraq War, but the
main piece of evidence for that claim is from the summer of
2004. His statements about the war in early 2003
were fairly ambiguous, according to PolitiFact.

"But you're not on record at all opposing the war before it
began," Stephanopoulos told Trump. "There is simply no evidence
of that, sir."

"There is evidence, and I'll find evidence," Trump replied.
"Because I was against the war."

"We look forward to seeing that evidence of you being against it
before the war began," Stephanopoulos said.

In another Friday-morning interview, Trump was
also pressed about the BuzzFeed report. Trump insisted on the
"Today" show that he was a simple layman at the time of his 2002
Stern interview. He said he developed much stronger opinions
about the war between then and the time it began.

Trump said:

That was long before the war started. By the time the war started
— and you have documentation of this — by the time the war
started, I was against it. And you see articles in 2003. Don't
forget: I wasn't a politician. Nobody really cared about my
opinion. That was just a question that was asked to me. I was a
civilian. I was an entrepreneur.